An oil pipeline feeding Shell’s Bonny export terminal in southern Nigeria is burning in six separate places but there is no impact on production, a company spokesman said on Tuesday. Precious Okolobo said Shell became aware of the fires on … read more
Rivers State on Tuesday again witnessed an outbreak of violence when suspected cultists killed three persons in Umumei and Umuolu communities of Igwuruta in Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state. The cultists, said to be fighting for the control … read more
NIGER-DELTA Freedom Fighters (NDFF), the militant group in Egbema kingdom of Delta State, which kidnapped four American workers of the Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), May 8, and released them after 22 days in captivity, yesterday, called on the Federal Government, … read more
Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enter-prises (BPE), Mrs. Irene Chigbue, said yesterday that due process was observed in the concluded sale of both the Port Harcourt Refinery Company and Kadu-na Refining and Petrochemical Company. This is coming against the … read more
Angry youths of Oben community in Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo State on Tuesday shut down Oben Gas Plant belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited. The youths, led by one Prince West Ogienwonyi Uyigue, told our correspondent that … read more
The wife of Nigerian secessionist leader Ralph Uwazuruike says she is still committed to his cause, even though he has spent two years in jail. “The struggle continues – it is not negotiable,” Ngozi Uwazuruike told the BBC about the … read more
TWO American airlines are set to commence operations on lucrative Nigeria – United States routes. The visiting four-member team from the United States Federal Aviation Administration that arrived on Sunday for the initial technical assessment of the Nigerian Civil Aviation … read more
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday told a Federal High Court in Abuja, that a former Governor of Jigawa State, Saminu Turaki, allegedly looted N17bn from the state�s treasury in one day The sum, according to a charge … read more
OVWIAN-ALADJA community in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State was submerged in tension, weekend, following the kidnap of a Nigerian employee of the Niger-Benue Trading Company (NBTC), Ovwian-Aladja, Mr. Daniel Tishene, by suspected Ijaw militants and a counter-operation by … read more
There was a security alert in the Niger Delta on Saturday following a presidential order to the heads of the security outfits in the region to curb crime or face unpleasant actions It was leant that President Umaru Yar� Adua, … read more